Pidgin can't connect to network socket

[Sam Williams]

I rebooted my computer a couple of times tonight and each time I was having problems with pidgin. I've never seen this problem before. It would start to log into gtalk/xmpp and each time it would freeze. I finally started purple up under gdb and found the following message:

ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket

When I run pidgin.dbg under strace I get the following message. I'm a little confused because I see all these calls to open a library for libaudacious. I do not have this library on my system at all.
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/cmov/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/i486-linux-gnu/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/libaudacious.so.3", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
munmap(0xb2e76000, 83786) = 0
pipe([7, 19]) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb700c708) = 13316
close(19) = 0

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

Package: pidgin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1856
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
Replaces: gaim (<< 1:2.0.0+beta6-3), pidgin-data (<< 1:2.4.0-1)
Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.74), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.10), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtkspell0 (>= 2.0.10), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), liblaunchpad-integration1 (>= 0.1.17), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1), libpurple0 (>= 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1), libx11-6, libxss1, perl (>= 5.8.8-12), perlapi-5.8.8, pidgin-data (>= 1:2.4.1), pidgin-data (<< 1:2.4.1-z)
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
Suggests: evolution-data-server (>= 1.10.0), gnome-panel (>= 2.1) | kicker (>= 3.1) | docker, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.4.2)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 199438, so it is being marked as such. Please feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.